Thursday, December 15, 2011

How much bandwidth does gaming use?

There is a common misconception that 'gaming' uses a ton of bandwidth and users like 3G/4G wireless customers can't game because of bandwidth constraints. If you watch the video above using Pepwave's bandwidth monitoring features you'll find that some games don't use much data at all!

In our tests with MW3 we found the game used approximately 30MB per hour, which translates into the following for tiered wireless customers: